Hairy Cyclist Dave Myers is remembering the moment when he saw, through the unfiltered lens of tv, that he had actually got fat. He spotted himself on re-runs of The Hairy Bikers’ 2009 Food Trip of Britain. ‘It’s the maddest thing, watching old programs,’ states Myers, ‘like getting your household album out and snapping through. What I realised was that things [by which he means his expanding waistline] had reached emergency.’ The Hairy Bikers now see themselves as ambassadors for a healthy middle life and understand, to the pound, how much they weighThe partner of the Hairy Bikers cooking phenomenon, Si King, was even porkier and their years of adding a splash of cream or a huge knob of butter to whatever as basic were suddenly over.Today they are both totally signed up to healthy consuming. Myers has oat milk on his morning muesli and King made a non-dairy rum sauce for his Christmas Dinner. Myers utilizes the fruits of his kitchen garden in the French Loire, where he has a home, to make veggie banquets. King does not even need the fingers on one hand to count the pieces of chicken and fish he ate in January. ‘I wasn’t doing Veganuary, but I totted them up at the end of the month and it was only 4.’ It has to do with as far from a complete English in an oily spoon bikers’ cafe as you can imagine, although King says his last meal in the world would still be a bacon sandwich and a cup of tea.They now view themselves as ambassadors for a healthy middle life and know, to the pound, just how much they weigh. Myers was 17 st 10 pound at his heaviest and slimmed to 14 st 2lb, King went from 19 st 8lb to 14 st 8lb. Both have actually put on a little weight just recently, after expanding while driving Path 66 in America for their most recent TV show. So they are on diet plans again.’ That is what we do now,’ states King. ‘We get on the scales and motivate other middle-aged fat chaps to do the exact same. You want to eat that pie? Well, get on the scales, man!’ Their crusade is a genuine one, driven by their own experiences, for both have had suggestions of their death. King had a brain aneurysm that nearly eliminated him in 2014, something he admits was partly a hereditary issue and partially brought on by his food-loving lifestyle. Myers, on the other hand, suffered a bout of pneumonia in 2018 and was diagnosed with glaucoma a years earlier. If it had gone undetected, it could have paralyzed his capability to cook, ride a bike and check out an autocue.And it means they ar
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